Sentences with phrase «mystic truths»
"Mystic truths" refers to profound and transcendent ideas or beliefs that are often associated with spiritual or mystical experiences. These truths are typically beyond the realm of ordinary human understanding and are often characterized by a sense of deep mystery and spiritual insight. Full definition
Bruce Nauman, The True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths (Window or Wall Sign), 1967, neon tubing with clear - glass - tubing suspension frame.
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In it, Hancock notably explains: «These works show evidence that the painted surface can become a mirror, revealers of mystic truths, exposers of hidden existential binders.»
What is usually used to mark a military border is transformed into a personal search for a «mystic truth»: As the mirrors reflect whatever is above as below, the spiritual sphere is connected to the earthly, the outer external material world to the inner metaphysical.
In a show that has much to do with appropriation, it's important to recognize the artists who have previously responded to the «mystic truth» of Nauman and his contemporaries.
The True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths (12 - Step), 1999 Ink on holographic vinyl 3 x 36 inches / 7.5 x 91.5 CM Exterior view, Margo Leavin Gallery, USA, 2000
The True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths (12 - Step), 1999 Ink on Holographic Vinyl 3 x 36 inches / 7.5 x 91.5 CMInstallation view, Yes Bruce Nauman Zwirner & Wirth, New York, USA, 2006
In Mungo Thomson's solo exhibition at Kadist Art Foundation, Wall, Window, or Bar Signs, the gallery is filled with neon works that appropriate the form of Bruce Nauman's spiraling neon text piece, The True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths (Window or Wall Sign) from 1967.
The True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths (12 - Step), 1999 Ink on Holographic Vinyl 3 x 36 inches / 7.5 x 91.5 CM Exterior view, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA, 2000
Indeed, from the American artist's early work in sculpture and video, made in the 1960s, through his famous spiral of neon letters spelling out «the true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths,» which at once summarized and opened to critique the perennial mystique of the artist, up through his three - venue Golden Lion Award - winning exhibition at the 2009 Venice Biennale, Nauman's work has long been an indispensable part of the narrative of recent American art.
Maybe he makes too much fun of piety for a show devoted to mystic truths.
The True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths (1967) by Bruce Nauman.
Diehl's blog entry reproduces Bruce Nauman's neon tubes: «The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths.»
Often provocative in nature, he connects physical realities of violence, sex, and death with visceral, spiritual messages, like an early neon sign proclaiming, «The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths.»
Famous works include: From Hand to Mouth (1967, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC); The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths (1967 Neon Light, Philadelphia Museum of Art); Bouncing Balls (1969 video); Green Light Corridor (1970, Samuel R Guggenheim Museum NY); South American Triangle (1991, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC); and Anthrosocio (1992, Kunsthalle, Hamburg).
His best known work from the 1960s is probably the neon spiral incorporating the words «The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths».
-- Bruce Nauman on «The True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths»
Inquisitive, empathic, often wry but never judgmental, Steffens's work is diaristic, psychedelic, and documentary — impulses that would be discrete in another photographer's work, yet are here merged into photographs that, in the words of his son Devon, «imagine a different America, one of strange beauty and mystic truth.»
So when Bruce Nauman made a sign saying «The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths» (1967), we understand it to be tongue in cheek.
MH Right — Like the Bruce Nauman piece The Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths.
A 1967 neon - light piece by Nauman spells out the sentence «The True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths.»
He produced a great number of neon pieces over the years, of which The True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths is one of the most cited.
You know the one, it's titled The True Artist Helps the World By Revealing Mystic Truths (Window or Wall Sign).
Indeed Nauman has claimed, through a 1967 work, that «The True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths», a teasingly ambiguous sentence can be read as earnest, satirical, or both.
Bruce Nauman, «The True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths (Window or Wall Sign),» 1967.